Cent OS and Qmail: Messages in Queue going crazy!

Kustome · 08-20-2010, 03:48 PM

Anyone have an issue with Messages in Queue going crazy?

and inside the emails is:

Received: (qmail 13662 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2010 10:07:14 -0700
Delivered-To: postmaster@ip-xxx-xxx-xx-xxx.ip.secureserver.net

Don't really know what could be causing this, the other day my messages in queue was at like 5,000 or so, but now its up to 445,000 messages in queue!! All of them that exact message.

Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

and yes those x's are suppose to be #s..

unSpawn · 08-21-2010, 10:58 AM

Posting the complete message including headers and in plain text might help. If the body reads something like "I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message" then the return code should help.

Kustome · 08-24-2010, 08:28 AM

hey unspawn,

That is the message when i use qmHandle -m#ofmessage

that is what it gives me.

also i am now up to 1.1 million emails in queue they are all remote emails it seems, also they are still piling up even though i have shut off my smtp service and the imap/pop3 service..

unSpawn · 08-24-2010, 11:57 AM

AFAIK without MTA logging (open relay spam? delivery loop?) and without headers (return path, forged or not) there is nothing you can determine from them except that they were send to the postmaster address which is used to trap user and MTA errors.